Any otaku who loves anime will probably remember a series or two with the most awesome fight scenes. Be it with super forms, power-ups, or flashy techniques - some anime, particularly shonen anime, ...

In addition to its famed castle, the city hosted Japan’s greatest ever swordsman as he wrote his famous treatise on martial arts strategy. The history of samurai in the area now known as ...

Martial arts movies often borrow elements of Westerns ... a vile team of bandits with six-shooters. Bunraku features a ...

Many aspects of Samurai culture were banned as emperors returned to Japan, including martial arts. Some Samurai kept their traditions such as ju-jitsu alive, however, with some moving away and ...

Seki Nobuhide Sensei, a martial arts and katana instructor, rates portrayals of samurai battles in movies and TV shows. He explains why samurai employed different types of spears in battle in ...

It’s a chilly evening in Emeryville, where half-a-dozen martial arts students at a community center are practicing with katana. They kneel, jump and slash, then slowly mimic wiping blood off ...

encapsulating the way the myth of the Samurai's martial ethos kept its power long after their heyday. But the Samurai's role in Japanese culture is much more complex than that. They were deeply ...

and in the old castle town of Sakura, he visits a dojo where the martial arts of the samurai are taught in all their original depth.